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FIRESIDE MISCELLANY. HOW TO TEEAT SCANDAL BY DBA* swirr. •Ve wise instruct me to indure An evil which admits no cure; Or. h.«w this evil can be borne, Which breeds at once both bate and scorn. Right, innocence is no support, When you are tried in Scandal's court; Stand high in honor, wealth and wit—■ All others who inferior sit Conceive themselves in conscience hound To join and drag you to the ground; Your attitude offeuds the eyes f)f those who want the power to rise! The world, a willing slander by, Jnclims to add the specious lie ; Alas ! they would uot do you wrong, llut all appearances are strong. Yet whence proceeds this weight we lay On what detracting people say? }'»r let mankind disgrace their tongues jn venom till they burst their lungs, Their utmost malico cannot make Voi;r headr or tooth, or linger acho ; Nor spoir your shape, distort your face, Or put one feature out of place; Nor will you find your fortune sink IJy jrhat they speak or what they think; Nor can a hundred thousand lie• Make you less virtuous, learned, or wise. The mos.t effectual w v to baulk Their malice is—T® RET THEM TALK- A D E T F ^ T IV E ’ B E X P E R IE N C E . There is a low rqined ctfltage ou St. Anthony street, where the moss grows over the roofing, and the rickety doors hang by broken hinges. Dust and age have hid the floor from sight, and tlie decaying walls arc damp and mouldy. Qijly one room is habitable, and that shelters auold woman, gray and deerep id. Sitting on a low stool sho mutters a lullaby— an ojd time song. Age has deprived her o f reason, but the sorrow a tragedy wrought, is yet fresh at her heart. Twenty years ago she was beautiful. The olive cheeks were radiant, and the •rlorious eyes flashed the triumph o f a belle. Tall and sleuder, exquisitely formed, with rich Andalusian type o f beauty, it is no wonder that she reigned regally over so many hearts. A t tint time nq society in the world was more brilliant than hers. Wealth and hospi tality went hand in hand, and the most refined and elegant in the land did homage to the beauty ot New Orleans. To be star regnant o f such society in volved more than physical loveliness, ¿»r.d lllunco Cast&llo had all the graces that intellect bestows. None knew when she was married A young clerk o f her father’s had gain ed her heart and hand. In this cottage her infant was born— here when she stole away from the bewilderment’s of fashion, sho enjoyed the society o f the man whose love she ha i ventured so pinch to win. W eddiog him in secret, she bad contrived to deceive her parents and friends. There were few things the father would not have pardoned i i his child— but not this? lie was wont to b<>ast that kingly blood wa 9 in his veins ; that his ancestry had fought under the stand prd o f Arragon. How could he accept a plebiau son-in-law. Months went by and the mask was persevered in. Hut a jealous rival discovered the deception at last. And one night the young hits band fell dead from a shot fired hy a concealed assassin. The bullet that pierced his heart destroyed the life of the child he held in his arms. W ho did it? Mr. I and myself had the workingup o f the case. The city was wild over the tragedy ; an account o f it will be found iu the Picayune o f that day. The unhappy wife, wild with grief, had not hesitated to avow her marriage. It produced an excitement ia fashionable society, rarely if ever seen before. Hut who was the murderer? This was the question upon every tongue. It was for us to discover. Months went by in incessant search. Here and there a link in the chain of evidence wus picked up Ufctil s*t hist we were able to hay our hands upon the man. But, if the deed in it-elf was horrifying, tho culprit when known, oc casioned a thrill of indignant sympathy for the unfortunate wife felt by all.— Before arrestiug him, however, we deemed it advisable to consult the lady For this purpose, Mr. I. nnd myself visited her. She was still at the cottage, never having left it since the night o f the murder. W hen shown into the room my heart turned sick as I con tcmplated the ravages a few short months had made. The form was 1 ow ed and bent— the beauty which had been the boast o f brilliant society— had fled. Before us stood a lady whom grief had all but wrecked. •‘ Madam, we have come to consult you in reference to the murderer o f your husband.” “ You have found him then ?” she eagerly inquired. “ Y es.” “ And he i s - - ? ” I could not help the sad look that came into my face. How could I in flict on a heart so worn and weary an additional sorrow “ You do not tell me,” she said with on intonation o f voice so exquisitely sad that it went to my heart. “ I must tell you, madam, deeply as I grieve to do so, hut you must prepare yourself for a great shock/* I rejoined. ‘ •Whatother calamity can befail me?” “ Perhaps a greater one than you have encountered yet. I fear you will esteem it such.” “ Speak, who is it ?” “ Your father.” “ My father?— oh, no, not him ; say it was not him,” and her arms stretched out to me so appealingly ; the white lips and anguished eyes were so beseeching that I felt I would ruthcr die tbau face such an ordeal again. “ My father ?” “ Yes maJum, the chain o f circum stantial evidence leaves no room for doubt. lie did the deed.” It seemed as if this last sorrow had broken her heart. She s‘ ood up before me ; every trace o f color fled from her face with unutterable anguish in look and gesture. ‘ Leave him alone with God !” and fell fainting tq the floor. From that hour to this I have never seen her. She holds no intercourse with any one. All else save a faithful servaut is banished - front the house. From her I learned what l repeat to you. Her reason has no doubt fled and she sits by the fireless hearth nursing h er sorrow aloue with her sorrowful memories. Y o u n g W om en and M a rria ge. Children should uot marry. A young woman cannot be considered iu any sense prepared for this union uud< r twenty on e; twenty five is better. She is not physically or mentally developed before this. Solemn duties, cares and responsibilities await her, for which she needs large physical development, ma ture judgm ent, good calculation, domes tic training, and knowledge o f mcti and things. Girls o f sixteen and eighteen cannot have these. They cannot tell what they really like or dislike— who and what will meet their nece-sity— until they are matured themselves. You cannot overestimate the impoy tanee of a thorough knowledge of {he man you desire to marry. Uprightne-s. fixedness o f principle, an unselfish and generous disposition and g o d business abilities should be regarded as indispen sable. I f a young man i{> a good son and brother, lie will make a good hus band, provided you do your part. Do not be won by trifles. A hand some face, fine figure and noble bearing may be desired Hut they constitute a small part o f what you need. They may he but the gilt which hides some terrible deformity, and which by and by, will cause you emotions o f disgust, terrib'e grief or constant unrest. It is not wi-c to aspire far above your pres ent station in life, as this would give ri-»c to solicitude lest you shou’d fail to adapt yourself to your changed circum stance'». Marriage should not beentered upon without a thorough knowh-dgo o f its physiological laws, elso much domestic misery may be expected. Neither should it be sought fur worldly gain or passion. True esteem and affection, united to adaptation and congeniality o f taste, should form its basis W hen this does not exist before marriage, it is hopeless to expect it afterwards. You must look out for breakers ahead, and feed the flame of love with pure oil Y ou will need fully as much tact, skill and patience to manage another heart, as your own. I f you cannot think alike, he resolved to yield rather than differ. Avoid altercation and recrimination. He forbearing ami forgiving if need be. I would also suggest that those graces and charms which won a lover's heart he still kept for the husband. Never consider it too much trouble to dress tastefully and in your best for your hus band's eye. Give him freely o f tlmse graceful attentions and pleasant sur prises which will make him happy, if you expect a continuance o f love like attentions from him. Hide all the dis agreeables in pers n, toilet aud home, and keep the best for love. AT H O N E I|I T H E EVEN IN G . Humorous Sayings and Doings. Nothing concerning the future wel fare and happiness of the young is so neglected by parents and guardians as the manner in which theiy evenings are spent. Darkness is temptation to evil; and the suflering young men and boys to be absent from tho family hearth, when t,be light o f day does nut restrain them from misconduct, is really restrain ing them to it, and producing incalcu lable mischief and ruin. All the riots, disturbances of any kind and crimes arc the result o f running in the streets after nightfall. The home is sometimes more necessary than the mere command, and parents should endeavor by their own example to show the importance o f spending the hours of daikness with the fam ily; for if heads of households cannot experience the truth o f the as sertion that “ there is no place like home,” how can they expect their off spring to be domestic. Evening recre ation aud employment in the family circle are infinitely m »ro agreeable aud plt*a?unr. than any amusement or dissi put ion abroad ; and honorable and learn ed men are the products o f the one, while dissipated specimens o f the hu man race are the results o f the other. Let huipe be the place it should be, and let the sunie fascinations aud induce ments be offered at the homestead as abroad, and a more exulted and credit able class o f citizens would people the world. A traveler at the South writes of a city there : “ Tjbis city ia beautifully laid o u t ; so is most o f its capitalists.” A G ood F a r m e r ’ s A ccou n t of H i m s e l f — I am a common plain far mer. 1 cultivate about fifty acres o f laud, and much o f the labor is perform ed by my own hands, including the regular attendance at market. My laud is good— I made it so without buying auy manure. I keep horses enough to do the work; and cows and pigs much more numerous than any o f tuy neigh bors in proportion to the same amount o f land. I cultivate every foot o f soil I can, and it is done iu the best planner. I have a good sized garden, stocked with a little o f everything, including all the valuable small fruits. I find that well tilled land, having previously been put in a high state o f cultivation, will yield not only twioe but tfiripe as much as moderately good land moder ately worked- Cuminencjng in a very .-mail way, going in debt for nearly the whole place— I have succeeded in pay ing off the entire debt, bu ilding« new barn,¿repairing the house, and adding generally to the appearance and value o f the place. I pay cash for everything I buy. W o live as well as there is any desire on the part o f my family. My wife is not overworked. W e keep the Sabbath. W e do unto others as we would have them do to u s--are ready to perform a neighborly a ct at all time*. O u r ch ild r e n are being well educated. All this hus been accomplished by at tending strictly to my owu affairs, and not troubling myself unnecessarily with the affairs o f my neighbors, or idling time away at shops, stores and taverns, aud criticising the conduct o f others. “ You seem to walk more erect thao usual, njy dear sir.” “ Yes, I have beeo straitened by circumstances.” Josh Billings says he will never patronize a lottery so long as he can hire anybody else to rob him at reasonable wages. A green young man, who had never before seen a steamboat, fell through the hatchway down into the hold o f the State o f Maine, and, being unhurt, loudly expressed his surprise7 “ Well, if the blessed thing ain’t holler !” \ Willamette Iron Works Company ELMBOLD’S FLUID EXTRACT R U - CUU U pleasant in taste and odor, free from all injurious properties, and immediate in its notion. WORTH FRONT ANB S STREETS, e P O R TL A N D , OGN. 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We are prepared to execute orders for all He thinks you are a bone, I reckon.” classes o f Machinery and Boiler Work, such as The Esquimaux says, “ A man who has three wives is sure o f Heaven.” MINING AND 8TE&MB0AT MACHINERY He should be, for he will have enough S A W and F L O U R IN G M IL L S , o f the other pUce here below. An editor wrote a leading article on QUARTZ MILLS, MINING PUMPS, the fair sex. in the course o f which he said: “ Girls o f 17 or 18 are fond ot beaux. When the paper was is-ued, he was rather shocked to discover that an unfortunate typographical error had made him say : “ Gills o f I f or 18 are fond o f beans.” Dr. W ylie was once called to attend a member o f the editorial fraternity, and the patient, on being asked if he hadn’ t taken something strange into his stomach, replied that he believed he hud. “ It must have been that glass o f water— haven’ t been so imprudent be fore, doctor, for ten years.” A Georgia minister has discovered that the “ forbidden fruit” which Eye gave to Adam was tobacco. A person, ip company, speaking o f a gentleman not remarkable for his suavity, said he did not like lus manners “ Ilis m anners!” cried a lady; “ I nev. er knew that he had any.” Ac., Ac., Ae, Manufacture and Repair Machinery o f all kinds. Iron Shutter W o rk nt San F r a n cis c o Cost and F reig h t. 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SJ3 ® Therefore the nervous and debilitated — JZ fr— — should immediately use Helmbold’s Extrhct Josh Hillings divides the human race * 2 9 Bucbu. into three classes : “ Those who think i it is so, those who think it isn’ t so, and f- l - *■* s ' W Un Z © Pm those who dou’ t care whether it is so ot not ” ' * “ How long can a fool liv e ? ” asked a lawyer o f a witness that he was ex Manufactured from tho native Herbs and Roots of Cali ornia, amining “ I don’ t know, I am sure,” Jt-iS' The Great RlooJ Purifier replied the witness, “ llow long have T VINEGAR RITTERS you liv e d ? ” A Jlronklyn u n d e rta k e r re ce n tly w rote F O R I N F L A M M A T O R Y A N D C1IRO.V- IC R H E U M A T I S M A N D G O U T . D Y . - P E P .-IA or I N D I G E S T I O N . B tL lQ U S , R E M IT to a doctor that if the doctor would re commend him to families where he vis ¡ted, he (the undertaker) would ‘ •reci procate.” Your whiskers arc unprofessional,” said a client to his legal adviser. “ W hy so?” “ Because a lawyer can nover be too bare-faced.” F e m a l e S o c i e t y . — You know my “ Mamma, why are orphans the hap opinion o f female society. Without it piest children on earth?” “ W hy, my we should degenerate into brutes This child, they are not. W hat makes you observation applies with tenfold force to think they a re ?” Because they’ ve no the young men, and those who are in pareuts to lick ’em.” the prime o f manhood. For, after a On his death bed a distinguished hu certain time in life, the literary man morist requested that no one might be may make »sh ift (a poor oue l grant) invited to his funeral, “ because,” sighed to do without the society o f ladies. the dying man, “ it’s a civility I can T o a young man, nothing is so import never repay.” ant as a spirit o f devotion (uext to his “ W h a t! are you d ruiik again?” Creator) to some amiable woman, whose “ No, my dear ; nob drunk, but a little image may occupy his heart; guard it slippery. The fact is my dear, some from pollution which besets it op all scoundrel has been rubbing my boots sides. A man ought to choose a wife till they are as smooth as a pane o f as Mrs. Primrose did her wedding gown, glass.” fur qualities that “ wear well.” Oue “ I say, Pat,” said a Yankee to an thing at least is true, that if matrimony Irishman, who was digging in fiis gar has its cares celibacy has no pleasures. den, ‘are you digging out a hole in that A Newton, or mere scholar, may find onion bed?*’ “ No,” said Pat. “ I ’ m employment in stu dy; a man o f liter» D own on P etticoats .— That eccen ry taste can receive in books a powerful digging out the earth and leaving the hole tric philosopher, Ralph Meeker, writes auxiliary; but he must have a bosom Sir James Scarlet!, when at the bar, to the Sun that he is down on the bar friend, and children around him, to had to cross-examine a witness whose barian customs o f wearing petticoats or cherish and support the dreariness o f evidence it was thought would be very other tight squeezing articles o f appar old age.— John Randolph. damaging unless he could be bothered cl. He says : Petticoats are emblems o f slavery E v i l C o m p a n i o n s . — Society is the a little, and his only vulnerable point the same as are the veils o f Turkey, atmosphere of sou ls; aud we necessar was .-aid to be self-esteem The witness and thestripesaf Sing Sing. Were all ily imbibe from it something which is presented himself in the box— a portly, the women to put on pantaloons fa-mor either infeotiou 9 or salubrious. The overdressed person — and Scarlett took row, they would not only be just ns vir sodiety o f virtuous persuna is enjoyed him in hand. “ Mr. John Tompkins, I tuous. as modest, and as beautiful as beyond their company, while vices car believe?” “ Y es.” “ You are a stock “ And a very now, but they could walk the streets a« ry a sting into solitude. The society b rok er?” “ I ham.” fine, well dressed ham you are, sir.” being attired for work whether it he in or company you keep is both the indi the nursery or in the hospital. When cation o f your character and the former The shout o f laughter which followed God created the birds he plumed them o f it. In vicious society you will feel di>concerted the witness, and the coun with feathers, male and female, and the your reverence for the dictates of con sel’s point was gained. fi-hes he clothed with scales. W ho science wear off, and that name at which A n intelligent gentleman from G er ever heard of a tigress having wool angels bow and devils tremble you will many, on his first visit to an American like a sheep or hair like an o* ? Yet hear oontemned and abused. The Bi church, had a contribution box with a no one has seen a stage girl attired in a blc will supply materials lor unmeaning hole in the top presented to him. and page’s suit, b\jLt he did not admire her jest or impious buffoonery; the conse whispered to the collector, “ I don’t got dress. A similay custom might he quence o f tikis will be a practical diver mein bapers. unt can’ t vote.” adopted by our young women that would sion from virtue, your principles will WiU asked old “ ten-per-cent,” what he far more becoming than tho one become sapped, the fences o f conscience b.e wanted to accumulate so much money worn at present. Tho garments could broken down ; and when debauchery for. Says h e : “ You can’ t take it he cut after any desired pattern, 30 that has corrupted the character, a in with you when you die, and if you the fundamental principles be observed, version will takq, pjgqe, gad the sinner could it would melt ” about the only good thing the stage has will glory in his shame. The Mayor of Mobile recently mar given us is now and then a decent fe After thp. cere T ub TJutf* W a y to S b c c r r B e a u t y — It is ried a colored couple. male costume. Universal suffrage is not to cosmetics and artificial appliances, to the mony, the husband said : “ Massa Caleb, the only remedy for the present evil skin and complexion, that we must look for you has forgotteu something.’» “ W hat Fifty year’s experience with the ballot personal comeliness, but to, ^ure. and, healthy is it. Aaron ?” asked the Mayor. blood. Let those annoyed with a sallow and will abolish petticoats and corsets fo r rough stiii, eyes yellow and dull, complexion “ W hy, you ain’ t buss the bride.” ever. _____________ disfigured with blotches, pimples,eruptive sores, It is altogether too absurd to say that etc., teeth discolored and breath offensive, cast Truth can hardly be expected to adapt aside all frivolous cosmetics, and resort at once man is not perfect. 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